Jo Locker is Senior Tobacco Control Manager at the Office of Health Improvement & Disparities, working across the national tobacco control programme, with a special focus on reducing smoking in pregnancy. She has been involved with issues related to tobacco and smoking cessation for more than fifteen years including providing stop smoking interventions, the development… Read more »
Richard Holley is the Area Manager for the North and West Northamptonshire Stop Smoking Services, and Tobacco Control lead for both the North and West Northamptonshire Public Health teams. In early 2020, Richard and his teams started to provide e-cigarettes to service users. A passionate harm reduction advocate, Richard has shared his experiences with numerous… Read more »
Dr Pesola is a Chartered Statistician working at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, QMUL. She has worked both the Department of Health and academia. Her research interests are varied with a specific interest in the field of smoking cessation.
A consultant in public health medicine, Dr Dianne Addei is the senior public health advisor in the NHS England National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme. As a healthcare public health practitioner, Dianne has over the last 20 years led the review and development of several services in the NHS at local, regional and national level. She… Read more »
Louise has been the Programme Manager with the South West Maternity and Perinatal Team since November 2021, working on supporting the delivery of the NHS Smoke-Free Pregnancy Pathway across the South West. Louise has worked for many years in different roles supporting improvement initiatives for women and pregnant people, including in women’s health research and… Read more »
Dr Ian Pope is a Specialty Doctor in Emergency medicine with a special interest in opportunistic behaviour change interventions. Ian is currently co-leading the Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department, an NIHR funded RCT of a smoking cessation intervention across 6 EDs. Ian also leads the Physician Associate emergency medicine module at the… Read more »
Pete Stewart is the Smoke Free Lead for Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS FT, with 19 years’ experience as a Registered Mental Health Nurse. In his current role as Healthy Hospital and Community Programme Manager, Pete leads the Trust’s Tobacco Treatment Team (QUIT Team). The QUIT Programme is part of a South Yorkshire Integrated… Read more »
Samantha Osborne is a specialist midwife in smoking cessation at University Hospital Dorset UHD. Graduating from Greenwich University BSC Hon Midwifery in 2010, whilst training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in South East London. Samantha has worked in all areas of midwifery before adventuring into tobacco dependency in pregnancy. Samantha provides an in-house smoking service with a… Read more »
Maria Duaso is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care at King’s College London. Her research seeks to understand the factors that influence the uptake, adoption, and implementation of tobacco control interventions. It spans across several clinical areas including substance misuse, long term conditions and maternity care.
Dr Nicola Lindson is a senior researcher, who has been involved in smoking cessation research since 2008. She is based within the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. Nicola is leading a programme of research looking at the provision of support to quit smoking in social housing and other… Read more »
